"Wreckateer" is an XBLA game, exclusive for Xbox 360 and with Kinect, which costs 800ms points and has 1.66 GB of download size. The game tells the story of a novice in a medieval demolition company (a job called Wreckateers), which tests new ways of destroying castles, with the use of a crossbow and special bullets.

The game's graphics have a colorful and relaxed look, with a more"Wreckateer" is an XBLA game, exclusive for Xbox 360 and with Kinect, which costs 800ms points and has 1.66 GB of download size. The game tells the story of a novice in a medieval demolition company (a job called Wreckateers), which tests new ways of destroying castles, with the use of a crossbow and special bullets.

The game's graphics have a colorful and relaxed look, with a more animated style, and 3D effects, with an overall look more "cutesy", being other games with the graphical style, that we see in games like Fable Legend. The details of the characters are exaggerated and have a more strange look, remembering dolls. The enemies and characters so the game has a more childish apparence.

Your avatar appears in the game, but it's translucent, controlling the crossbow. The castles have some visual details, that follow the same pattern, but the emphasis in this area is in the details at the demolition action, with landslides and smoke, all in slow motion.

The game has various effects of destruction, which are different for each type of ammunition used, and destroying things in seqência fireworks are released and shown on the screen, which has several bars and graphs points final score curves. The style of the castles has a nice variation at each stage, and the towers collapse and the fall can destroy other towers, or the houses that are behind them, like in a falling domino game.

Audio: the game has an adequate instrumental music track, passing through medieval to the liveliest tunes, such as the ones whe see in Kingdom of Keefling and Fable, the characters have all voiced dialogues, with English accents. The other sounds are good.

The gameplay fully uses Kinect, and has the goal of destroying structures in the target castle, causing destruction and cumulative multipliers, yielding a score final. In order to obtain the different scores medals of the game (gold, silver and bronze), we should destroy structures and gat bonus points, either by detonating explosive charges trapped in castles, or killing Goblins in places that are around you. Killing the Goblins, gather bonuses points and a Mulligan, which is activated with the left arm, which symbolizes a stage in-game Retry to try to score better.

The crossbows are controlled by you joining arms in front of you, to load them, going back to provide tension and guiding up or down the shooting angle, and opening the arms to shoot. Thereafter, and depending on the type of bullet, you can control the trajectory of the shot, and it may have different effects in the targets.

We can take control normal crossbow shots, using his hands, with two magical Gauntlets - the normal bullet is fired and uses hand movements to be able to maneuver it, in order to pass through shield-like markers zones to get the target zone (usually with an extra point icon, like 5K or 10K). We also have the flying bullets, which are activated after being thrown, opening the arms and is used to control the inclinations of his trajetory, in the shield zones, and we have other varied bullets as the Split, which are formed by four interconnected magic structures, which can be controlled to and rotated horizontally more targets.

At each stage of the nine stages, we have score bars to be reached that are shown to the left of the screen, and that strate the points needed to score and medals, and multiplayer that can increase the final score. The sensitivity and detection of body movements in this game are good (to control the flying bullets and crossbow), and easily learned. To control the crossbow, do not need much space to the front and back, but need some space to the sides.

The game also provides unlockable avatar items, and is the first game of a program called Famestar Avatar (which will be activated on Full House Poker and Kingdom of Keeflings among others), which allows you to use points earned in it for the weekly specials such items avatar and clothing.

Summary: for 800MS Points, with a nice Kinect gameplay driven by destruction style points (like in early Burnout games) and inspired by Angry Birds like games (aim-shot-destroy targets like games), this is a causal game, worth the investment, especially when you have children. The action of destroying things ends up being a bit addictive, but can get boring over the medium to long term - still, the cost / benefit and enjoyment of the game make it worth your money.…Collapse

When I initially purchased the game, I immediately became frustrated when the kinect-controls seemed to do things on their own. I finally discovered that my controller was on and causing some kind of strange interference with the on-screen avatar. Once I got the controls to work properly, I found the game to be an absolute blast. I thought only my son would enjoy it but 2 days later myWhen I initially purchased the game, I immediately became frustrated when the kinect-controls seemed to do things on their own. I finally discovered that my controller was on and causing some kind of strange interference with the on-screen avatar. Once I got the controls to work properly, I found the game to be an absolute blast. I thought only my son would enjoy it but 2 days later my arms are sore from playing constantly trying to set high scores.

+only 800 ms points
+kinect controls work very well(post-Issue)
+does not get boring like angry birds and the games are not really comparable at all anyway

-Trying to see leaderboards is a bit of a task
-strange controller interference
-physics could be better…Expand

Good controls, nice variety of projectiles each with unique properties, and fun overall gameplay. Multiplayer is addictive when trying to beat your mates score, and the randomness with the projectiles' rebounds provides equal opportunity to score a lucky catch up.

"Wreckateer" is an XBLA game, exclusive for Xbox 360 and with Kinect, which costs 800ms points and has 1.66 GB of download size. The game tells the story of a novice in a medieval demolition company (a job called Wreckateers), which tests new ways of destroying castles, with the use of a crossbow and special bullets.

The game's graphics have a colorful and relaxed look, with a more"Wreckateer" is an XBLA game, exclusive for Xbox 360 and with Kinect, which costs 800ms points and has 1.66 GB of download size. The game tells the story of a novice in a medieval demolition company (a job called Wreckateers), which tests new ways of destroying castles, with the use of a crossbow and special bullets.

The game's graphics have a colorful and relaxed look, with a more animated style, and 3D effects, with an overall look more "cutesy", being other games with the graphical style, that we see in games like Fable Legend. The details of the characters are exaggerated and have a more strange look, remembering dolls. The enemies and characters so the game has a more childish apparence.

Your avatar appears in the game, but it's translucent, controlling the crossbow. The castles have some visual details, that follow the same pattern, but the emphasis in this area is in the details at the demolition action, with landslides and smoke, all in slow motion.

The game has various effects of destruction, which are different for each type of ammunition used, and destroying things in seqência fireworks are released and shown on the screen, which has several bars and graphs points final score curves. The style of the castles has a nice variation at each stage, and the towers collapse and the fall can destroy other towers, or the houses that are behind them, like in a falling domino game.

Audio: the game has an adequate instrumental music track, passing through medieval to the liveliest tunes, such as the ones whe see in Kingdom of Keefling and Fable, the characters have all voiced dialogues, with English accents. The other sounds are good.

The gameplay fully uses Kinect, and has the goal of destroying structures in the target castle, causing destruction and cumulative multipliers, yielding a score final. In order to obtain the different scores medals of the game (gold, silver and bronze), we should destroy structures and gat bonus points, either by detonating explosive charges trapped in castles, or killing Goblins in places that are around you. Killing the Goblins, gather bonuses points and a Mulligan, which is activated with the left arm, which symbolizes a stage in-game Retry to try to score better.

The crossbows are controlled by you joining arms in front of you, to load them, going back to provide tension and guiding up or down the shooting angle, and opening the arms to shoot. Thereafter, and depending on the type of bullet, you can control the trajectory of the shot, and it may have different effects in the targets.

We can take control normal crossbow shots, using his hands, with two magical Gauntlets - the normal bullet is fired and uses hand movements to be able to maneuver it, in order to pass through shield-like markers zones to get the target zone (usually with an extra point icon, like 5K or 10K). We also have the flying bullets, which are activated after being thrown, opening the arms and is used to control the inclinations of his trajetory, in the shield zones, and we have other varied bullets as the Split, which are formed by four interconnected magic structures, which can be controlled to and rotated horizontally more targets.

At each stage of the nine stages, we have score bars to be reached that are shown to the left of the screen, and that strate the points needed to score and medals, and multiplayer that can increase the final score. The sensitivity and detection of body movements in this game are good (to control the flying bullets and crossbow), and easily learned. To control the crossbow, do not need much space to the front and back, but need some space to the sides.

The game also provides unlockable avatar items, and is the first game of a program called Famestar Avatar (which will be activated on Full House Poker and Kingdom of Keeflings among others), which allows you to use points earned in it for the weekly specials such items avatar and clothing.

Summary: for 800MS Points, with a nice Kinect gameplay driven by destruction style points (like in early Burnout games) and inspired by Angry Birds like games (aim-shot-destroy targets like games), this is a causal game, worth the investment, especially when you have children. The action of destroying things ends up being a bit addictive, but can get boring over the medium to long term - still, the cost / benefit and enjoyment of the game make it worth your money.…Collapse

There's a lot to like about The Wreckateer; it's a fun, if slightly lightweight offering, and its Kinect controls are well implemented. But as good as it is, The Wreckateer won't win over anyone who isn't already convinced by Kinect. It looks like players may have to wait for the next generation of consoles before that's even possible.